Free Powerpoint Templates Page 2 Biography He was born into a Russian peasant family. His mother was a midwife. They lived poorly — the mother did not accept gifts at work, and this served as an example for him throughout his life. From 12 to 18 years he studied in Cherepovets, at school, then in a mechanical college, graduated from it and became a mechanic. Lived alone.

Free Powerpoint Templates Page 3 • In 1935, together with his first wife entered the Arkhangelsk Medical Institute, graduated with honors in 1939. He wanted to practice physiology, but there were free places in graduate school only in surgery. Also he studied at the Correspondence Industrial Institute and also received an engineer’s diploma with honors in 1940.

Free Powerpoint Templates Page 4 • During the Great Patriotic War he served as a surgeon in a small, with a staff of five doctors, a mobile field hospital, through which more than 40, 000 wounded passed, had about 4000 operations.

Free Powerpoint Templates Page 5 His invention

Free Powerpoint Templates Page 6 • On January 17, 1963, he performed the first in the USSR prosthetics of the mitral valve of the heart. In 1965 NM Amosov reported on the experience of successful implantation of hemispheric prosthesis of heart valves to patients with a small left ventricle, when it wasn’t possible to sew globular prostheses.

Free Powerpoint Templates Page 7 • In 2008, in the television project «100 Great Ukrainians» on the «Inter» TV channel, Amosov took the second place as a result of the popular vote, having passed only Yaroslav the Wise.